I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
Firstly Hackerrank challenges, 2 problems, not very difficult, usual stuff.
Phone interview with a FDE, not easy to get in touch with the engineer, since he was traveling a lot and kept rescheduling the interview.
Onsite interviews consisting in 3 interviews with 3 FDE. Be sure to revise all the fundamentals of algorithms, coding and design techniques.
Everyone looked quite stressed and not really enthusiast.
I think they are looking for the perfect candidate, 1 single answer which is not the perfect one for them and you are done. That's the impression I had. As usual they rejected me without any feedback.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Given a pointer to an element in a singly linked-list, how can you delete the element from the list?
Given a set of events and a set of time ranges. How can I find in how many time ranges a single event is in? Events are expressed as single points in time(single timestamp), time ranges are expressed as starting point and end point.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
I directly gave the technical interview, which was about 50 minutes long. The interviewer was nice, and the interview itself felt collaborative, where I could ask questions and share various problem-solving approaches.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
I applied with a referral
Multiple rounds -
1. HR screen
2. decomposition round
3. onsite with 3 interviews (coding, learning, and decomposition)
4. hiring manager (didn't make it past this one)
Took them about 5 weeks after the hiring manager round to update me that I wasn't selected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hiring manager round got really deep into my career motivations
I had behavioral interviews and then 4 in person interviews. The behavioral was straightforward. There was also a data query interview where they taught you a new "language" and had you execute basic queries in it. Then there was a system design interview. I had two of these. The last one they asked me if I was deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.
Forward Deployed Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 150 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Palantir Technologies overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Palantir Technologies as a Forward Deployed Engineer according to 150 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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